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Ask and ye shall receive. This thread is for posting photos of your rig, modded or not. Though it's most likely that everyone viewing these forums has high-speed internet access, please resize all your photos to 1000x750 pixels or smaller, out of courtesy to those remaining few who might not...

I suppose you could see if it will complete a round of 3D Mark 2006.

What I'm talking about is a complete re-formatting of your computer's hard drive, and a fresh install of Windows. That's why I mentioned that you'd need to back up your files. Depending on your usage patterns, it may not take very long at all for your current Windows installation to get...

handlebars "By George, I do believe he's got it!" I hate to bust your bubble (and hardware upgrades are always nice), but I don't think his game-crashing to Windows is due to the video card. I think it may be a software issue, perhaps a driver conflict. If the problem were the video card...

No doubt, $349 is a lot, and this will set the Mako system out of most casual listeners' budgets. I make these comments having not heard the system yet (since we haven't received our review sample), but since THX was involved not only in the testing and certification, but also the acoustic and...

Yeah, I screwed up (dagnabbit). If you can find the 5021, go for them.

Keep in mind that you may not be able to find the MX5051 anywhere but eBay at this point, seeing as how it's a discontinued model. They're still an excellent performer, and good-sounding.

If you can find a place that still has the Altec Lansing MX5021, I'd actually go with those if you don't want to wait for the Razer Mako, and if you can find a place that still has the MX5021 in stock. From what listening I've done to the MX5021, it's an extremely competent system, and the...

This card now lists on Newegg for $179. It's still pricey, but I think it was $199 when I wrote this review. I don't recall for sure - it may have been the HP-1 headphones that cost $199.

Awesome, thanks. This is one of those products you really can't go wrong with, from one of those manufacturers you really can't go wrong with.

My first machine was a 33MHz Mac Performa. We upgraded it to something like 32MB of RAM, and Mac OS 8.1. before it couldn't hack it anymore and my parents finally purchased a new Windows-based family computer. My sister is an art major, and she uses a MacBook. Even though it's either Windows or...

I have to say, I'm extremely happy with the way the Razer Barracuda performs (as I'm still using it). Its audio performance was at least as good as the Audigy 4. I'm not totally sure why it scored lower in my RMAA 5.5 loopback testing -- I think my test methods need more refinement. As I think I...

Ok. I did a bit more research into the Vista Drivers question, and I found that C-Media actually has a beta driver for the CMI8788 chipset that is already available. This driver is missing DDL (Dolby Digital Live) and DTS surround encoding functionality on the digital output, but everything else...

Unfortunately, it looks like Razer's Vista drivers for the Barracuda aren't ready yet -- the beta drivers are expected by April 10, but that's still very much subject to change (as anyone familiar with software development knows). Personally, I run Windows XP on all my machines, and will...

Pick this one apart, gentlemen, since this review is my first sound card review, and it will set a lot of precedents for how I conduct sound card reviews in the future. I welcome your input and any suggestions you can offer for improvement. The first improvement I can think of is in the way I...

Awesome. Welcome to the fray, Pat.

I don't think it's a problem with either the AVOX or your television -- it may simply be that the signal that AVOX is feeding to your TV is a refresh rate that your TV doesn't support at that resolution. Just use 720P for your AVOX. Welcome to the forum.

Pat Poole = New? Or just a guest writer?

I want to see this mod. I'll bet it looks sweet.

My question is this: Is there any demonstrable improvement in performance by using NVidia-branded OCZ memory with an NVidia GPU instead of OCZ-branded OCZ memory?